FileForums - Dreamfall The Longest Journey 2

Sadly, I find myself agreeing with that sentiment emreggub. When TLJ initially came out some years ago, I was a little skeptical of it since I had been of the opinion that adventure gaming was all but dead. But when I played the original TLJ I was pleasantly surprised.

Afterwards, I played Syberia and Syberia II, but they didn't quite live up to my personal liking for TLJ. I waited anxiously for the sequel to be released, and as soon as my local store had it, I rushed to get my copy.

Let me say that one game that I have never played (because I tried it and did not LIKE it) was the Myst series. I just didn't like the way the game was structured and the way the controls operated. TLJ2 (Dreamfall) I find to be more like Myst than anything else that I can think of. My copy is now back on the shelf. Thankfully I know a worker at the store who agreed to let me return it even tho it had been opened - he trusted that I had removed it from my system. Of COURSE I removed that piece of garbage from my system! I would rather have 5 or 6 GB of Barney the Dinosaur videos! And THAT says something!!!

One other reason for my extreme disappointment in this game is that my mother-in-law was ALSO waiting anxiously for this title to be released. She can only play certain types of games since she has been paralyzed from a stroke for a number of years now and only has the use of one hand. Therefore, games which require keyboard/mouse combination for control are out of the question for her. And so this game is TOTALLY USELESS to her!!!

I guess my biggest beef with Aspyr is that they didn't let people KNOW that the format of the game had been changed to such an extent. It's just lucky that I had connections that would allow me to return the game! I pity all those souls out there who paid out their hard-earned money for this game expecting a sequel to the original.

Guess I'll just have to wait for Syberia III to come out, and hope that IT doesn't get massacred like TLJ2! :mad:

Oh yeah, another thing that kinda soured me against this game. When I initially tried to install it (intending to install it on a partition with about 40 GB of space free) I received the message that installation could not continue because there was not enough free space for the game! Now, this was BEFORE the installer had let me select where I wanted the game to be installed! And to add insult to injury, the installer would NOT allow me to exit!!! I kept clicking to "Cancel" but the d****d install error message would NOT go away! I was thinking that I would have to reboot the computer or power off and restart when I thought of using Windows TaskManager to kill the setup file.

Contacting Aspyr netted me the information that the installer had a bug in it (why do they expect people to pay $50 for a game with a buggy installer???) and that I would need about 8 GB of free space on Drive C in order to install the game, and even then I would probably have to modify the desktop icon to point to the correct location for the executable!!!

They did send me a set of instructions on modifying the registry (with appropriate warnings that I could do irreversible damage to my computer by doing this!!!) so that I could get the game to install WITHOUT having to have any free space on Drive C. I followed their instructions and DID manage to get the game installed (on my F: partition), only to be severely let down and disappointed when I finally ran the game.

To say that this is one of the worst f***-ups in the history of computer gaming is putting it mildly! :(